Projektinformationen

eingereicht von
Tim Weißker

Mitwirkende
Ramsha Saad Thaniana, Margarita Osipova, Eric Schlossberg, Ankith Kodanda

Lehrende
Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich, Pauline Bimberg, Tim Weißker

Fakultät:
Medien

Studiengang:
Human-Computer Interaction (Master of Science (M.Sc.))

Art der Präsentation
Forschungsprojekt

Semester
Wintersemester 2020/21

Links
https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/med...

Projektbeschreibung

Many virtual reality interfaces in the past have primarily focused on providing immersive experiences for individual users. Recent developments, however, steer more and more towards collaborative virtual environments which allow both collocated and geographically distributed users to meet and interact with each other in a shared virtual space.

In this project, we started by exploring commercial Social VR systems as well as research papers on the subject to better understand the challenges for distributed user interaction. Afterwards, each of us focused on a particular sub-topic and developed novel solution approaches in an own distributed virtual environment built upon Unity and Photon:

* A toolset for giving presentations in social virtual environments
* Metaphors for managing transfers of the presenter role
* A toolset for simulating and evaluating eye contact when direct eye tracking is not available
* A short-term group navigation technique based on virtual hand holding

Two pilot studies conducted at the end of the project revealed promising initial results and motivate future research in each of the four areas.

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